A device small enough to clasp around a wrist now listens to the world without pause, and the law — written in an age when recording required deliberate effort — has not yet found words for what that means. Apple's always-on watch features have surfaced a quiet but consequential collision between ambient technology and eavesdropping statutes built for a different era. Across American jurisdictions, the question of who must consent to being heard, and when, is being asked anew — not in a courtroom yet, but in the minds of legal scholars who sense one is coming.